Farmer trainers should be selected based on their interest and ability to teach others rather than on their successes in implementing farming techniques, shows a new study led by Steve Franzel, a scientist at the World Agroforestry ...
Environment
Nov 15, 2011
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Studies have estimated that converting manure from the 95 million animal units in the United States would produce renewable energy equal to 8 billion gallons of gasoline, or 1% of the total energy consumption in the nation. ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 13, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Massey University research has led to the development of a calf supplement that can increase milk yield in dairy cows by up to 12 per cent.
Other
Sep 12, 2011
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Wageningen University researchers in the Netherlands are able to determine cows' methane emissions using the composition of fatty acids in their milk. This opens up the prospect of a method for reducing methane production ...
Environment
May 27, 2011
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Computer simulation studies by scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) suggests that a dairy cow living year-round in the great outdoors may leave a markedly smaller ecological hoofprint than its more sheltered ...
Other
May 24, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Good record-keeping can reduce greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farms and improve per-cow productivity.
Other
Nov 25, 2010
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This week heralds a new era in dairy farming with the revelation of the robotic rotary, a world first, developed by DeLaval in collaboration with the University of Sydney and Australia's FutureDairy project.
Other
Nov 16, 2010
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Forget all the tacky jokes about cow flatulence causing climate change. A new study reports that the dairy industry is responsible for only about 2.0 percent of all US greenhouse gas emissions.
Environment
Oct 6, 2010
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Think you're uncomfortable in the extreme Texas summer heat? Try being an ovulating 1,200-pound mother cow.
Other
Sep 2, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the first large study to track the fate of a wide range of antibiotics given to dairy cows, UC Davis scientists found that the drugs routinely end up on the ground and in manure lagoons, but are mostly ...
Environment
Aug 27, 2010
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